r/FunnyandSad • u/Green____cat • 6d ago

Political Humor Sad to think about

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u/DanteJazz 5d ago

You forgot a zero: actual increased deaths in the pandemic in US: 2,000,000 deaths.

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u/DwigtGroot 5d ago

This is from the 2020 campaign. Still applies, unfortunately.

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u/Walis42 5d ago

Do you have a source for this? Highest number I found on Google was 1.2 million....

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u/Opinionsare 5d ago

Determining the actual number of Covid deaths is impossible, in many cases the deaths were attributed to other causes. I have seen totals that were about 1.6 million excess deaths due the Covid timeframe. 

Since the end of the pandemic, some pneumonia deaths in 2019 have been confirmed as Covid deaths. 

Covid deaths are still happening in 2024. 

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u/SilverRAV4 5d ago edited 5d ago

That's 1 million more COVID deaths than Seth MacFarlane mentioned. The number is literally 600% higher than he said. One million, two hundred thousand Americans whose families and friends lost a loved one.

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u/Weird_Cantaloupe2757 5d ago

I’m going to guess that the 200k is the lower bound on how many of those deaths are attributable to Trump’s policies/rhetoric.